Re: Tempest-- (AKA, Clay and Zonn beating each other's brains out)

On Thu, 27 May 1999 16:52:49 -0400, you wrote:

>>>That actually brings up a good point. What's the highest score anyone's
>>>seen in Tempest? I should probably check out the data format for the
>>>Rev.3 Tempest ROMs, but the Rev.1 ROMs only store three bytes of BCD
>>>digits for the score-- that's a max of 999999...
>
>
>According to Twin Galaxies, The hi score for Tempest was 1728329 Set on
>7/30/83
>by Hector Vazquez

Wooaah!! That's got to be like 30 to 60 minutes at level 99!!!
Geeze!!

I bow in the general direction of Hector! (and I thought the score
wrapped, or maybe it does and he just kept playing until he got
another 728329 points. Geeze!!)

-Zonn
Received on Thu May 27 16:03:27 1999